Key Terms/Sūtra
From Bodhicitta
सूत्र sūtra
scripture,\ discourse
མདོ།
mdo
佛经
fújīng
Sanskrit - Noun
1·Discover
Basic Meaning
Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon.
2·Explore
Has the sense of
Sūtras originally referred to the aphoristic sayings and discourses, although one can find many exegetical and descriptive sūtras. In the Buddhist tradition, sūtras are generally considered to be the words of the Buddha or his immediate disciples, in contrast to the commentarial or synoptic literature, some of which summarized and condensed the teachings in the sūtras.
In other languages
Tibetan
མདོ།
mdo
dho
Sanskrit
सूत्र
sūtra
Chinese
佛经
fújīng
How translators render it
discourseBuddha-nature Standard, Jeffrey Hopkins, Ives Waldo
scriptureBuddha-nature Standard, Ives Waldo
In the dictionaries
Term type
Noun
Source language
Sanskrit
Topic
sūtra
